Chris Rock Faced Oscars Hosting Controversies Long Before The Slap

Chris Rock’s hosting role at the Oscars in 2022 garnered a huge amount of attention. Now it is being discussed again, with the comedian finally making jokes about the matter. Rock-lovers will recall that Rock has been involved in drama and controversy before hosting Hollywood’s largest night.

Other than vague mentions of Oscar-winner Will Smith storming on to the stage, there are no other references. slap himRock didn’t dive into this incident much until the moment. The Netflix Special “Selective OutrageThe premiere of “” was on March 4, less than a week prior to the 95th Annual Academy Awards. This timing is hard to believe.

“Anybody that says that words hurt has never been punched in the face,” Rock shared his thoughts with the crowd as he performed, while the rest of the audience laughed. “Words hurt when you write them on a brick.”

Smith, a 58-year old celebrity spoke in depth about Smith’s motivations and the slap. Smith was responding to Rock’s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith being bald. Rock says, “Jada, I love ya. G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see it” It was enough for Will to jump from his chair and hit Rock, while repeating the gesture. “Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth!”

You could interpret this as a sign of an overprotective spouse. Rock insists Will’s reaction to Smith was more about Smith’s complicated marriage. Jada and Will have spoken out about Jada’s infidelity. She even interview her husband in an episode on her talk show “Red Table Talk” He was forced to confront these feelings. “entanglements” publicly.

“Will Smith practices selective outrage because everyone that knows what happened, everybody that really knows, knows I had nothing to do with that s***. I didn’t have any entanglements,” Rock says during the stand up special “His wife was f***ing her son’s friend.”

“Now I normally wouldn’t talk about this s***,” Rock continued. “But for some reason these n****** put that s*** on the internet. I have no idea why two talented people would do something that f***ing low down.” He stated.

“We’ve all been cheated on, everybody in here has been cheated on. None of us have been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television…”

Most Academy Awards-lovers will not forget that Rock was not the first to host 2022. This Emmy Award-winning actor was first on the stage in 2005. While there wasn’t much drama back then, he hosted. “slapgate,” There was also some controversy at that point.

Rock was criticized for mocking the ceremony, even before he took to the podium.

“Come on, it’s a fashion show,” Comedian told Entertainment Weekly before the broadcast in that year. “What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one. And they don’t recognize comedy, and you don’t see a lot of black people nominated, so why should I watch it?”

Rock laughed about Jude Law’s second-rate Tom Cruise. This earned him an unpleasant scolding by Sean Penn. Rock responded by saying: “Forgive my compromised sense of humor but I did want to answer our host’s question about who Jude Law is. He’s one of our finest actors.”

Rock returned to hosting the 2016 Academy Awards despite these small incidents. Rock was invited to host the Academy Awards 2016 despite his protest at the lack of black nominees that year. It was the “Saturday Night Live” However, the former alum spoke out against racism while he was onstage. 

“Is Hollywood racist?” He said during the presentation. “You’re damn right Hollywood’s racist.” Rock stated that he believed the industry wasn’t “burning cross racist … it’s a different type of racist.”

Rock said that the people Rock was referring to are “don’t hire black people and they’re the nicest white people on earth; they’re liberals.”

Their form of racism is, he said. “sorority racist, like ‘We like you, Ronda, but you’re not a Kappa.'”

Rock mocked Jada Pinkett and Will for missing the 2016 ceremony in rare foreshadowing.

“Jada got mad, she said she’s not coming. Doesn’t she have a TV show? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties – I wasn’t invited!” he quipped, adding, “You get mad that Will was this good and didn’t get nominated” [for his role in ‘Concussion’]. “It’s also not fair that Will was paid $20 million to do ‘Wild Wild West.'”

He also spoke out against the boycott. 

“‘Chris, you should boycott, you should quit’ – how come it’s always unemployed people that tell you to quit something?” Rock. “I thought about it really hard but they’re not going to cancel the Oscars because I quit, and the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart.”

Rock concluded the speech with, “black lives matter” While raising his fist.

The exact nature of the “Death at a Funeral” No one will ask star to host Academy Awards. Jimmy Kimmel is this year’s host, and he will also be taking to the podium for the third consecutive year. recently discussed He will tell you what to do in case someone assaults you during the presentation.

Kimmel was asked his opinion on how to handle a slap. told The Hollywood Reporter “Well, I size them up, and, if I’m bigger than they are, I beat the s*** out of them on television. And if it’s the Rock, I run.”

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